iOS 27: All the New Health and Fitness Features
MacRumors • • general
Key Points:
- Apple scrapped its rumored AI health service before the iOS 27 beta release, but the update includes several health and fitness improvements.
- The Health app’s Browse section has a redesigned, colorful card-style interface and a unified bottom navigation bar with an integrated search/browse button.
- Visual Intelligence, available on iPhone 15 Pro or later, introduces a nutrition feature that analyzes food photos to provide nutritional value rankings and highlights processed ingredients, protein, and sugar content.
- Cycle Tracking now supports perimenopause and menopause, sending notifications based on long-term cycle data for users aged 40+, along with new Fitness+ workouts and faster Health app data syncing.
- New Child Safety features offer parents expert-guided content controls, while Fitness app route maps and treadmill distance tracking are more accurate, step counts sync between Health and Fitness apps, and GymKit expands to iPhone for equipment data syncing without needing an Apple Watch.